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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
10
Publication details for The Washington Post including delivery areas Washington and Alawamra with monthly weekly and yearly rates. Discussion of police and municipal needs in Washington plus editorials on Arbor Day Tolstoi and public service issues.
Theodore Roosevelt warns against class consciousness as a national risk in his latest New York World message. He argues democracy rose with Jefferson, contrasts colonial aristocracy with modern equal rights, and notes social shifts since the civil era while mocking current political slogans.
Roosevelt told a senator who backed his bid for four battleships that he would never have pledged a third term or reiterated it. he said the pledge stands though he would not have made it had he known how events would unfold. The exchange centers on perceptions of his 1932 presidential bid and Senate indifference.
The Philadelphia Record notes Roosevelt praising a speech on multimillionaires whose son is a fool and daughter a foreign princess. It questions his call to Congress and asks why such talk should be tied to a special message rather than akin to medieval marauder barons.
The Wolkonsky name, linked to Russian nobility and Siberian exile after the Decembrist uprising, is traced from early Muscovite lineage to Prince Sergius Wolkonsky. The article recalls Pushkin era ties, marriage, and a Boston lecture by a Wolkonsky descendant, with notes on noble wives who followed husbands into exile and later pardons.
A summary of Mlle Mathilde Zeys notes on Moroccan childrearing. Moorish children show strict respect to parents, greet elders by kissing the hand, and eat separately. At five, boys start school with gifts for the master, then a party signals entry to a guild. If aptitude is lacking, schooling ends for a trade. Education is literary, not scientific, and religious rules limit chemistry and anatomy.
In a Brooklyn Eagle column Julius Chambers recalls fear of snakes and a doctor who let a rattler bite him to prove its antidote, noting a South American viper yielded venom for fifty years of antitoxin. The piece recounts a country meadow encounter with a black snake and a sprightly girl who defeats it, then hints at public danger if a venomous snake escapes a zoo box and endangers city residents.
A NYT excerpt debunks rabies myths citing the Bureau of Animal Industry pamphlet. It argues that rabies occurs year round, rejects muzzle-only cures, and notes misinformed claims about the mad dog theory and Pasteur treatment. It includes a courtroom anecdote about a husband and wife dispute.
A plain stone house near Nuremberg city hall stands out for being built of lithographic stone valued at six to twenty cents a pound. Built about 168 years before Alois Senefelder’s birth, it draws lithographers who tour the area. The owner Andreas Lichtenstein, descendant of the builder, refuses to sell despite offers to tear it down for the valuable stone.
A fragmentary Zimbabwe of 184 era woods and modern campaigning traces, describing William Henry Harrison and Lincoln era theatrics. The piece notes log cabin imagery, cider barrels, and hats in a vast crowd, with vivid scenes of cheering and stage energy. It compares old time convention frenzy to later political theatrics and includes excerpts about public uproar and the Chicago press.
Frederick B. Lynch, campaign manager for Gov. John A. Johnson, declares Johnson will enter the Denver convention with strong vote backing. He emphasizes Democratic unity and the party’s need for a winning candidate amid recent defeats, while naming concerns about internal tensions and regional support.
Reflections mix travel notes and social observations as an American narrator contemplates Europe and Asia. The piece quotes the New York Press and blends musings on power, identity, and cultural perception with aphorisms about flattery money and judgment.
A hazy report from Hanaten Post 4 in New York notes banks down, stocks sinking, yet a man remains untroubled and never placed money in a bank. The excerpt suggests concern over financial turmoil, contrasting calm individual with unsettled market conditions.
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